Politics

Reports further said that party spokesperson Manish Tiwari and Thiravanthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor were also in the running for the post.

A BJP meeting was called to decide whether it will have a new president before the next round of assembly polls in the coming months or the change of guard will happen in January 2020 on the end of Amit Shah’s three-year term.

A Home Ministry spokesperson also denied the reports about the former external affairs minister being appointed as the governor of Andhra Pradesh.

A similar meeting was held in 2014 after Modi assumed charge as prime minister in his first term.

TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee said the ministry of home affairs has drawn conclusions without verifying the ground reality or taking a report from the state government.

BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said the people of Bengal have lost confidence in Chief Minister Banerjee and no poll strategist can turn the tide.

After getting lakhs of meters installed, the fixed charge of power tariff was raised causing trouble to the poor and benefiting the discoms, said Delhi Congress' president Haroon Yusuf.

The JD(S) patriarch slammed his critics who said his days of electoral politics were over following his defeat.

Jagan Mohan Reddy announced to implement 'Rytu Bharosa' scheme on October 15, as promised in YSRCP’s manifesto.

N Chandrababu Naidu had withdrawn the 'general consent' to CBI to conduct raids and carry out investigations on central establishments in Andhra Pradesh in November last year.

Criticising Mamata Banerjee for losing her cool over chants of "Jai Shri Ram", Kailash Vijayvargiya wondered whether uttering the phrase was a crime in the state.

The chief minister had first hinted about the scheme in a public meeting on Saturday, during which he also said his government was in touch with the city’s power regulator to bring down fixed charge component of electricity bills.

The Trinamool chief has lost her cool on a number of occasions when confronted by groups of youth chanting 'Jai Shri Ram'.

Patnaik's resignation from Bijepur seat comes three days after he announced a Rs 1,330 crore package, including plans to provide pucca houses to 34,000 households having kutcha houses, for Bijepur Assembly constituency.

After the Lok Sabha results came in, Akhilesh Yadav has been turning to his father for advice and guidance — something he did not do in the past.

The Union government needs to take a stand regarding the agricultural loans taken by farmers from commercial banks, Pinarayi Vijayan said on Friday in a reply to the letter by Rahul Gandhi, who was recently elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad seat.